N.Z. ALPINE FAULT
Knowledge Overseas
(N.Z. Press Association)
WELLINGTON, July 10.
New Zealand’s great adpine fault, where land masses had been displaced by 300 miles horizontally, was known throughout the world, thanks to a Victoria University geologist, Dr. H. W. Wellman, said the associate professor of geology at Louisiana State University, Dr. D. H. Kupfer, today. Dr. Kupfer is in New Zealand for a year to study the fault, where the former south-eastern tip of the South Island is believed to have moved to the present northwest of t'he island. Dr. Wellman had shown the New Zealand fault cut the South Island from north to south, separating it into two unequal parts, said Dr. Kupfer. The western side of the island was moving north and the eastern side so-utth. Just how fast the movement was and how long it had taken to reach its present state, was uncertain.
The fault line was associated with the well known Wellington and Wairarapa faults. Most faults had an earthquake history.
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Press, Volume CI, Issue 29871, 11 July 1962, Page 19
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